Car thieves are almost certain to evade the police and avoid criminal charges in England and Wales, shocking new figures reveal.
Official data shared with This is Money suggests forces across the country are failing miserably at catching those responsible for stealing an increasing volume of vehicles from our streets, which in turn has sparking a big jump in insurance premiums for all drivers.
The nation’s motorists have been under a siege of rising motor crime in recent years, which
Some 230 million people in the United States face the potential of damaging earthquakes in 100 years, according to the latest U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model, or NSHM. That’s about 40 million more people than the NHSM previously suggested.
“This hazard model forecasts where we think the future earthquakes will occur,” and moreover, where there’s “the chance of having any damage from an earthquake,” says geophysicist Mark Petersen of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver.
Despite never even setting foot on the planet, human-made space junk is already piling up on Mars.
A new map reveals the locations of debris from spacecraft that have landed on Mars in the past 53 years, including the now defunct Ingenuity helicopter.
This junk includes bits of metal landing equipment, heat shields, used parachutes, clipped rotor blades, drill bits and even fabric netting.
Cagri Kilic, a professor of aerospace engineering at West Virginia University, estimates that there’s already a
For more than 2,000 years, the lost city of Atlantis has fascinated treasure hunters and explorers.
But despite countless theories and decades of searching, the lost city has remained stubbornly lost.
While Atlantis itself may be nothing more than a myth, archaeologists have uncovered real sunken cities all over the world.
From a ‘cursed’ town in Germany to a mysterious underwater pyramid in Japan, these drowned worlds may be even stranger than any legend.
So if you feel like hunting
Fears of an impending measles resurgence today sparked a national ‘call to action’ by health chiefs who are alarmed over vaccination rates slumping to a 10-year low.
As few as half of children have had both measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jabs in parts of London.
Similarly low levels are also seen in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.
Dame Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UKHSA, begged parents to check their child’s immunisation status, warning that the public had ‘forgotten what
England is known for its ‘green and pleasant land’ – but just how green is it really?
Back in 2000, renewable energy accounted for just 2.8 per cent of all the energy generated in the UK.
But by 2020, Britain celebrated its first year in which more electricity came from renewables than from fossil fuels, making up 43 per cent of the total energy mix.
Now, interactive maps shed new light on just how many renewable energy projects are underway
A fascinating festive map reveals the cities where people most want to spend Christmas 2023 around the world – and London is number one.
On the map, generated using Google search data for common Christmas travel-related keywords, countries are named followed by the city where their residents most want to spend the festive period.
Searches such as ‘Christmas in London’ and ‘things to do in London for Christmas’ are top in 20 countries including Spain, Netherlands, Canada, and Australia.
Vienna
A fairytale-like castle located in the south of Germany and Machu Picchu in Peru have been named the two most in-demand attractions in the world.
They come top of a ranking of the 16 most in-demand tourist attractions, drawn up by Premier Inn after data was collated from over 100 official online booking systems that revealed how far in advance travellers must book their tickets for top experiences around the world.
The ‘captivating’ Neuschwanstein Castle and the 15th-century Inca citadel
For travelers with cash to splash or those looking for some wish-list items, these high-priced tourist attractions might fit the bill.
DailyMail.com has scoured the globe for some of the costliest attractions around, with bungee jumping in New Zealand and gorilla trekking in Rwanda being among the activities to make the cut.
One of the priciest ventures comes in the form of a flight to the South Pole, with a round trip costing a cool $59,900.
Take a flight down
People living in some of Britain’s worst 5G not-spots say they have been forgotten by major mobile phone companies and are lagging behind the times.
Earlier this week, a report revealed a stark digital divide between rural and urban areas that is continuing to get wider, with as many as 883,000 people missing out on 5G coverage completely.
The study, commissioned by Vodafone UK, revealed that more than half of rural deprived areas were classified as 5G ‘not spots’, whereas
